The Greater Vancouver Food Bank wants your help to buy a permanent home

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is asking to your assist to safe itself a everlasting dwelling.

The charity, which feeds greater than 27,000 individuals together with greater than 8,000 youngsters a 12 months, doesn’t personal a facility.

In consequence, it’s been pressured to maneuver places seven occasions simply since 2020.

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That’s disrupted companies, made issues more durable for shoppers and price cash the charity says could be higher spent feeding individuals in want.

Now, the meals financial institution has the chance to purchase the constructing it at the moment occupies on Lougheed Freeway close to Rupert Avenue, and is interesting for assist to make it occur.

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“It’ll reduce the prices that we’ve for working the operation, clearly, once we don’t need to pay a lease on a month-to-month foundation,” stated CEO David Lengthy.

“It’ll additionally imply that I because the CEO can give attention to the way forward for the place we’re going to go together with the meals financial institution, what we’re going to do with the meals financial institution, moderately than worrying about the place this subsequent lease or this subsequent area goes to be.”

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The constructing the meals financial institution needs to safe is simply 300 metres from the Rupert SkyTrain, and options workplace area that could possibly be used for wrap-around service companions.

It’s already outfitted with refrigeration and freezer area, and would enable the entire charity’s departments to work collectively beneath the identical roof.

The charity has already lined up main donors to cowl a lot of the $15 million price of the acquisition and is now hoping smaller donors can get it over the end line, with a purpose of $2.5 million in public donations.

Yow will discover out extra on easy methods to assist the Higher Vancouver Meals Financial institution or donate to the marketing campaign at its website.

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